Author's note: The statements Cheney made this week during an interview with the Washington Times about his role in approving the waterboarding of three Guantanamo detainees and the so-called "enhanced interrogation" of 33 prisoners was, disturbingly, not covered at all by the mainstream media.

Also published at my web magazine, The Public Record.

Vice President Dick Cheney, in another stunning admission during his campaign to burnish the Bush administration’s legacy, said he personally authorized the “enhanced interrogations” of 33 suspected terrorist detainees and approved the waterboarding of three so-called “high-value” prisoners.

“I signed off on it; others did, as well, too,” Cheney said about the waterboarding, a practice of simulated drowning done by strapping a person to a board, covering the face with a cloth and then pouring water over it, a torture technique dating back at least to the Spanish Inquisition. The victim feels as if he is drowning.
The Movement: Cheney Admits He 'Signed Off' on Waterboarding of 3 Guantanamo Prisoners (http://thelastmovement.blogspot.com/2008/12/cheney-admits-he-signed-off-on.html)

BlueAngel

12-27-2008, 11:44 PM

Mainstream media has already reported as to Cheney's role in approving torture techniques at GITMO.